Appealing to authority is a risky business in science, as Dawkins appreciates, because scientific progress often involves the few prevailing against the many.
For a few moments, the prevailing feeling was sincere, overwhelming fun.
Our findings could be a mere coincidence due to the spread of a few endemic clones prevailing in this institute or the neighboring communities where the pediatric patients came from.
Just a few years ago the prevailing style statement in Williamsburg featured metrosexually groomed urbanites wearing trucker hats and pristine Carhartt jackets and quaffing Pabst beer.
Just a few months ago, the prevailing wisdom in the world of punditry was that the Obama campaign was in trouble.
Old (sorry, wealthy) even by the standard of recent returning rappers, the Chicago native has weathered a few different storms and prevailing trends, his peaceful and occasionally preachy vibes (along with Erykah Badu he was one of the affiliates of the "Soulquarians" collective) tempered by his calm baritone flow.
These two horses have raced against each other a few times, with Arrogate prevailing, and I see no reason to suggest a reversal on Saturday.
It came a few months later when prevailing winds and seasonal rainfall took a toxic road trip, traveling like the Shinkansen over hills and valleys, and along Rte.
Simultaneously I tried to keep my tongue from hanging out of my mouth and not laugh because it was so at odds, so in contrast to the serene ambience uncomplicated by matters of sex that had been peacefully prevailing a few minutes before.
She lacked a doctrine, a prevailing call.
Over the last few decades, prevailing management models have moved increasingly from blind obedience to informed acquiescence, and it's just now moving to self-governance.
